Manicurist buffer



Feb. 15,. 1949. A. SORRELL 2,461,781

MANI CURIST BUFFER Filed March 17, 1947 l8 /5 l9 l? Hana: Sorrel-ll INVENTOR.

ATTOP/VEY Patented Feb. 15, 1949 MANICURIST BUFFER Anne Sorrell, Hollywood, Calif., assignor of onehalf to Margot Keller, Beverly Hills, Calif.

Application March 17, 1947, SerialNo. 735,090

Claims.

This invention has to do with improvements inmanicurist buffers employing a replaceable buffer surface or, covering material, and is directed particularly to a highly practical and simple solution of thedifficulties commonly experienced in replacing such materials as they become soiled or worn.

The present type of nail buffer is commonly made to comprise a body portion which may carry a pad, a replaceable covering Of appropriate buffing material such as chamois, and a handle or head portion attached to the body. Various expedients have been proposed and used for at taching the bufling sheet cover in place, as for example by sewing, clamping or securing the covering by penetrating projections carried by the body. Experience has shown that all such expedients are objectionable from either or both the standpoints of excessive time and manipulations required to change the cover. and the extreme difiiculty of tensionin the cover both transversely and longitudinally in a manner that all irregularities or wrinkles will be removed.

; As stated, the invention provides a simple solution of the problem, by permitting quick attachment of the covering to the body in taut condition assuring a perfectly smooth buffing surface. To this end the invention preferably employs a buffer comprising a body section of cavitated form, preferably a flanged shell, to which the pad is secured and about which the buffer covering is applied, and a handle or head section receivable within the shell to retain the covering in clamped condition between the head and the body flange.

The invention has for its primary object to provide a simple means for initially retaining the covering in taut condition on the body before application of the head thereto. This purpose is accomplished by providing in the body a series of small openings preferably positioned in the bottom of the body shell and extending along its flange, to receive edge portions of the covering folded over the flange into the shell. By this arrangement, initial attachment of the covering to the body may be effected simply by thrusting the covering into the openings, the latter being sufficiently small to retain a chamois or like material, and having such distribution as to assure proper tautness of the covering in all directions.

The above mentioned as well as variousv additional features and details of the invention will be more fullyunderstood'from the following description of an illustrative embodiment shown by the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a view showing the buffer in side elevatlon;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

, Fig. 3 is a view lookin into the top of the retaining shell; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the bottom section of the buffer with portions of the covering material broken away to more clearly reveal the construction.

The buffer may be considered generally to comprise a head or upper section if having a handle l2, and a bottom or base section 13 which receives the head section in the manner later explained. Referring particularly to Figs. 3 and 4, the base section contains an elongated shell I t having a bottom 15 tapering to round ends and curved longitudinally in conformance with the buffer curvature as it appears in Fig. 1. The shell M has an upstanding peripheral flange 56, at the inside of which the bottom l5 contains a series of slots l1 positioned at the end as well as along the sides of the shell. As will be understood, the shell may be made of any suitable rigid material such as metal or an organic plastic composition.

As best illustrated in Figs. 2 and 4, the bottom of the shell carries a pad I 8 of suitable fibrous or other compressible material, the pad having a covering l9 which preferably is made of a liquid impervious sheet such as a fabric impregnated with rubber like or plastic substance resistant to penetration and deterioration by. liquids including water, oils and the solvents used in nail polishes. The pad cover 19 has a marginal flap 20 which extends over the shell flange l6 and is secured at 2 to its inside surface as by a cement or adhesive.

The buffer surface sheet 2|, consisting ordinarily of chamois, is applied over the pad cover !9, the outer portion of the chamois being folded over the shell flange l6 and pad cover applied thereto to brin the inner edge portions of the chamois into position for reception Within the shell slots l1. As the chamois is folded into the shell, it is thrust into the slots H, the latter being sufliciently narrow to retain the chamois in taut condition over the pad covering, at least until the head section II is inserted into the base. As shown in Fig. 2, the head has a lower reduced portion 23 conforming generally to the shape of the shell M, and which, when the sections are fitted together, engages the chamois at 24 with sufiicient tightness to securely clamp it in place, retention of the chamois being further aided by the engagement of the head flange 25 with the top of the chamois folded over the shell.

Insertion of the head into the base may tend to loosen or withdraw the chamois from at least a portion of the slots, and particularly at the sides, because of the movement of the head l'l against the marginal portions of the chamois extending in rather taut condition from the top of the shell flange directly to the slots. Before such withdrawal of the chamois occurs however, the head will have clamped it securely in place.

By removing the head, the soiled charnoismay be readily pulled from the base and a replacement chamois applied by folding it over the pad cover and into the shell in the manner explained, for reception in the slots. Quick thrusts of the chamois into the successive slots using any narrow device such as a nail file, will cause the,

chamois to become doubled upon itself inside the slots at a thickness causing the chamois to become retained in pad.

I claim:

1. An improved nail buffer comprising a cavitated body shell having .a peripheral flange and containing a series of slots extending through the shell, a buffer covering extending about and inside the shell insertable in doubled condition in said openings to initially retain the covering on the shell, and a handle head received within the body cavity inside said flange and clamping said covering thereto.

2. An improved nail buffer comprising an elongated and cavitated body shell having a peripheral flange, the bottom of said shell containing at the inside of said flange a series of slots extending through the shell and positioned along the sides and ends of the flange, a buffer covering extending over and inside said flange and initially insertable within said slots in doubled condition to retain the covering in taut condition transversely andlongitudinally of the tensioned condition over the body, and a handle head received within the body cavity inside said flange and clamping said covering thereto.

3. An improved buffer comprising a thin walled and cavitated body shell containing a series of slots extending through the shell, a pad on the bottom of said shell and attached thereto,

a buffer covering extending about said pad and insertable in doubled condition within said slots to retain the covering on the body, and a handle head attached to the body.

4. An improved nail buffer comprising an elongated and cavitated body shell having a peripheral flange, the bottom of said shell containing at the inside of said flange a series of openings positioned along the sides and ends of the flange, a pad engaging the bottom surface of said shell and attached to said flange, a buffer covering extending aboutsaid pad and over the flange-into the shell, said covering being initially insertable in doubled condition Within said openings to retain the covering in taut condition transversely and longitudinally of the body, and a handle head received within the body cavity inside said flange and clamping said covering thereto.

5. An improved nail buffer comprising an elongated and cavitated body shell having a peripheral flange, the bottom of said shell containing at the inside of said flange a series of openings positioned along the sides and ends of the flange, a pad engaging the bottom surface of said shell and attached to said flange, said pad having a flap extending over the flange'and secured to the inside thereof, a buffer covering extending about said pad and over said flap, said covering being initially insertable in doubled condition within said openings to retain the covering in taut condition transversely and longitudinally of the body, and a handle head received within the body cavity inside. said flange and clamping said covering thereto.

ANNE SORRELL.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the fil Of hi ent:

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